15 November 2003 | Oderbergerstrasse 19, Prenzlauer Berg
One year earlier, on 13 November 2002, the oil tanker Prestige broke apart in heavy seas off the coast of Galicia, spilling 63,000 tonnes of heavy fuel oil into the Atlantic. Over the following months, more than 1,900 kilometers of coastline were contaminated—from Galicia to France—devastating fisheries, suffocating marine life, and covering thousands of beaches in black tide.
The response from the Spanish government was widely condemned. The damaged tanker was towed out to sea rather than allowed into port, a decision that turned a crisis into a catastrophe. As oil continued to spill for months, the people of Galicia rose.
Nunca Máis — "Never Again" — became the cry of the largest civic movement in modern Galician history. In December 2002, over 200,000 people flooded the streets of Santiago de Compostela under umbrellas in the rain, demanding accountability and dignity for the coast. Artists, fishermen, students, and ecologists united. The cultural collective Burla Negra transformed protest into performance, satire into weapon. It was not just an environmental movement—it was a refusal to be silenced, a reclaiming of the right to protect what is ours.
On 15 November 2003, one year after the Prestige broke its hull, we brought that fight to Berlin.
At a small venue on Oderbergerstrasse 19 in Prenzlauer Berg—a space that no longer exists, demolished like so many others from that era—we gathered in solidarity with Galicia. The night unfolded in layers:
21:00 – Einlass
21:30 – Vortrag (talk)
22:30 – Performance
23:00 – Soliparty – Rachada
The performance, written by José-Maria Duran Medrano, carried the grief and rage of the Galician coast into the heart of Berlin. Then, as the clock struck 23:00, we moved into rachada—the Galician word for breaking open, for shattering silence—with music from DJ Keyser Soze (Galicia) and DJ Garrincha (São Paulo) , turning our anger into rhythm, our grief into dance.
This was not just a party. It was a message from Berlin to the coast: we see you. We hear you. Nunca Máis.
The venue may be gone, but the night remains in this flyer, in this memory, in this archive.
NIE WIEDER.